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Bruce Momjian b2e09fcd5e This is not the only place in the system catalogs where NULL is
effectively used to mean a default value that could also be spelled
out explicitly.  (ACLs behave that way, and useconfig/datconfig
do too IIRC.)

It's a bit of a hack, but it saves table space and backend code ---
without this convention the default would have to be inserted "manually"
since we have no mechanism to supply defaults when C code is forming a
new catalog tuple.

I'm inclined to leave the code alone.  But Alvaro is right that it'd be
good to point out the 'infinity' option in the CREATE USER and ALTER
USER man pages.  (Doc patch please?)

Alvaro Herrera
2003-03-20 20:05:32 +00:00
config Factor out the code that detects the long long int snprintf format into a 2003-01-28 21:57:12 +00:00
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains several language
bindings, including C, Perl, Python, and Tcl, as well as a JDBC
driver.

The ODBC and C++ interfaces have been moved to the PostgreSQL Projects
Web Site at http://gborg.postgresql.org for separate maintenance.

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
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file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
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